Securing Your Mobile Devices

How to Protect Your Most-Used Computer, Your Phone

Make your Android less vulnerable and learn to identify Malware

Welcome back, everyone. By now, I hope you have all taken concrete steps to improve your digital habits in order to better protect yourself in our interconnected world. Hopefully, you’re using a top-tier VPN to bolster your privacy. Maybe you’re using a best-in-class password manager to help you create and use complex and unique passwords for every website you visit. Or maybe you’ve locked down your most precious accounts using two-factor authentication.

My only goal in this series is that you start the process. If you have, let me and the other readers know with your comments and thoughts.

In our previous installments (found here), I focused mostly on how to implement security on your home and business computers. But what happens when you leave the confines of your home or business? What happens when you leave the laptop or desktop behind and pick up the most-used computer in your life: your smartphone? Well, that’s where things get a bit interesting, kids.

“More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.” — Marc Goodman, security expert and consultant to Interpol and the FBI